Rome, sentence 121
From Wikipedia, «Rome», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban life in the West in the fifth and sixth centuries, with few exceptions.
Who acts: urban life · What happens: coincide, collapse · To what, where: population decline
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rome». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urban life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 decline | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decline | compound |
| 3 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | coincided | coincide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decline | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 collapse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 collapse | det |
| 7 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 collapse | amod |
| 8 | collapse | collapse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coincided | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | amod |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 collapse | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 West | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 West | det |
| 14 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 centuries | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 centuries | det |
| 17 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 centuries | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sixth | cc |
| 19 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fifth | conj |
| 20 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coincided | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 exceptions | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 exceptions | case |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 exceptions | amod |
| 24 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decline | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coincide | participle | the population decline and few exceptions not said here | century | with the general collapse of urban life in the West | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with collapse=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | collapse | urban life in the West | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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